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; aS ‘PROTESTERS AT U.S. CONSULATE . . . demanding that Reagan renounce military intervention against Latin America. |
)' | Demonstrators at the: U.S. oe. viewed as unprovoked interfer- |
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thousands of re fen the owe t i eats : cr eatin ““We urge therefore that you ;
¢| | World in demanding that the Rea- . é . and Aes iomsey See
J | 8an administration in the U.S. f Id’ countries concerned as well as |
; |edit treats against Cuba and = “MGW TENSION IN WOFIG) tay one counties wio fear |
t/ | Tenounce any military interven- : that peace in the world would cer- |
s. | tion in that country or anywhere : ; : tainly be threatened by any such }
g in the region. world wars — when Haig, press- The Canadian-Cuban Friend- action, that there be no military |
J. __ The existence of contingency ed bya U.S. House committee to ship Association, which organiz- intervention or interference of |
Plans by the U.S. to take military give assurance that he would not ed Wednesday’s demonstration any kind in the affairs of Cuba,
} action against Cuba, El Salvador _ violate the independence of such . at the U.S. consulate, cited the Nicaragua or any other Central +}
: Or Nicaragua —revealedthrough  countriesasNicaraguaandCuba, _ statements by Haig and warned: +American country.”
| Statements by secretary of state _ stated: “No, Iwouldnotgiveyou ‘Any intervention or blockade in The Association had earlier !
; Alexander Haig— have touched _ such an assurance.” : the Caribbean threatens the peace _ sent a telegram to prime minister j
; Off a drumfire of protest in this The threats, which comeinthe _ of the whole world.” Trudeau and a subsequent letter |
Country and elsewhere. midst of an intensified U.S. eco- Association president Peggy to external affairs minister Mark
‘ The sense of alarm was accent- nomic campaign against Cuba Chunnreiterated that warningin McGuigan calling on them to
,| | Uated Nov. 11 — ironically, as and Nicaragua, particularly, a letter presented to U.S. consul- press Reagan demanding that
Canadians marked Remem- compelled both countries to put general Robert Moore, adding there be no military action taken
f ce Day for the dead of two — their armed forces on full alert. that any U.S, action “‘would be _ against ‘“‘any of these countries.” |

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Big corporations
losing no sleep
over new budget

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Across the country Nov. 16
working people viewed finance
minister Alan MacEachen pre-
senting his budget to parliament
on their television screens with
feelings of dismay and anger,
which will find their first mass
expression in the CLC protest
on Parliament Hill this week-
end.

To all the problems facing
them — inflation, housing, high
interest rates, unemployment —
the Liberal government offered
no solutions. . ]

Slight income tax relief in the
lower brackets — more appar-
ent than real in a time of infla-
tion — through, continued in-
dexing was more than offset by
removal of the RRSP interest
exemption and inclusion of fr-
inge benefits under taxable in-
come. Only the wealthy can gain
from lowering of the top income
tax percentage from 64 to 50
percent,

Long promised mortgage re-
lief proved to be equally decept-
ive, a variation of the chartered
banks’ scheme for deferral of
interest by adding it to principal,
compounding the home buyer’s
long term debt.

No plan was offered for gov-
ernment sponsored home build-
ing on the scale required to solve
the acute housing shortage in
every province.

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| tatorship the following year.

See PROBLEMS page 2

|Million say |

ATHENS — In the largest
demonstration for peace
anywhere in Europe, more than
one million people marched to
ithe U.S. Embassy here to de-
mand the removal of U.S. |
inuclear weapons from Greek
jsoil and the withdrawal of |
i Greece from NATO.

The massive demonstration

| marked the ‘eighth anniversary
| of the 1973 occupation of the |

J Polytechnical School by |
} thousands of students in 1973. |

| Some 500 people were killed 7
} when police and soldiers opened {
| fire on demonstrators but the |
} resulting crisis was instrumental }
in bringing down the fascist dic- |

The event is traditionally |
ij marked by a march to the U.S. |
}Embassy but this year’s |
| demonstration was swelled by

|movement in Europeand there- |

| government.

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| thousands, spurred by the peace |
cent election of the Papandreou |